Kolek planning to go pro
Yet another new poll showing that most Americans don't seem to be thrilled about the notion of re-opening the country ...https://apnews.com/3562b5a082a27221e532075de509a36c?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=AP&utm_campaign=SocialFlow&fbclid=IwAR1Yb-VlN7D4xt67JrLXhrRIskPfN-lTmAkXmfvR2CqvAwfm4th81qBOCe0
I 100% get that people are nervous about opening up and that is absolutely going to be key to the economy restarting is people getting to participate in it but.....If we don't start reopening, I don't know when do we? Reopening, even in a very controlled manner will come with Increased risk of exposure. It will definitely result in more positive test results, it will very likely result in more hospitalizations and likely will result in more deaths. That all sucks, but unless we are staying closed until a vaccine I don't know how its avoidable. I'm all for mitigation but any opening of any kind has risk.
I thought this was interesting on how spread is occurring. https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/21/opinions/south-korea-dance-class-covid19-outbreak-sepkowitz/index.htmlFox version for those inclined (it’s the same) https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.foxnews.com/science/one-group-fitness-class-led-to-112-coronavirus-cases-in-south-korean-study-warns-as-societies-reopen.amp
We agree 100%.I don’t post these polls as “proof” that we shouldn’t re-open. We pretty much have to do it, although I hope we do so gradually, and with plans in place to test, trace, etc.I post them to show that the narrative some have that Americans are clamoring to re-open this instant, regardless of how and regardless of consequences, is simply not reflected by the research.Most Americans remain VERY concerned. Unlike certain politicians, they are not ready to claim victory and go back to “normal,” whatever that is.
We've(as a society) seemingly retreated to one of two corners, we're all gonna die or this a hoax.
Make sense, I took your post to be an anti-open point, which was my mistake. I'm just seeing a ton of coverage leaning into the fear porn that is tying opening up to increases in positive test results(whether that is correlation without causation or not). We've(as a society) seemingly retreated to one of two corners, we're all gonna die or this a hoax.
Disagree, a bit. There definitely are extremes on both sides, and sometimes those voices are the loudest and get the most attention.But every time I look around, I'm reminded that the whole "reopen vs stay closed" debate doesn't exist in reality and presents a false choice that, it seems, nobody is making. Unless there's some jurisdiction of which I'm unaware - entirely possible - it seems that everyone is reopening. Different parts of the country are doing so with different timelines and with differing restrictions in place, but nobody is remaining completely shut down and nobody is back to normal. States with strict stay-at-home measures (Illinois, Cali, New York) are lifting them and, it seems, easing up one one aspect or another almost daily. States that were among the first to reopen (Georgia, Florida, Arizona) still have plenty of restrictions. And this makes sense, since not every state has been hit by the pandemic the same.It appears the only outlier is Wisconsin which, thanks to a clownshow of a state supreme court, decided the Wild West approach was best.And it seems the large majority of the public agrees with a measured approach to reopening ... a far cry from the notion that everybody is on one extreme or the other.I guess what I'm saying is, don't buy into what the loudest, most extreme voices are selling. They are the fringe.
Most Americans remain VERY concerned. Unlike certain politicians, they are not ready to claim victory and go back to “normal,” whatever that is.
(“the economy should re-open, but I don’t want to go out”).
The “economy should re-open” recognizes the economic realities of and the fallouts from a continued shutdown.The “I don’t want to go out” recognizes a fear that (IMO) is legit for the most vulnerable (and those who must have contact with the most vulnerable) but overstated for the vast majority of the population. Again, only my opinion, but I think healthy people who follow protocols (wash hands, don’t touch your face, social distance, wear masks, etc.) have very little to fear. Panic was understandable wHen so little was known about COVID. That’s just not the case anymore.
https://mobile.twitter.com/ericonederful/status/1262579559263727617
Reasonable, Lenny.Of course one problem is if you and I follow protocols but are surrounded by non-social-distancing, non-mask-wearing mouth-breathers who think that caring about others ranks a distant second to their “freedom.”
Golfing, meh. Hypocritical as hell since he spent 8 years bashing Obama for it, but other than they hypocrisy, not that big a deal. Scarborough is just meat for the base. It isn't going to get him a single vote, but it will keep the MAGAs fired up.
And ironic given the fact that Scarborough gave Trump a huge platform for his run in 2016